Palliative care in Canada ‘is inadequate and must adapt,” charges an articlepublished today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.Canadian palliative care is still mostly geared to end-of-life treatment of cancer, though most Canadians actually die of something else, the study’s authors write.“Somebody who’s in a large urban centre who’s dying of cancer is very likely to get good palliative care, but people dying of anything else, anywhere else, are not that likely to get good palliative care,” says James Downar, a Torontodoctor who co-wrote the article. Read more...